Duke in the News: Feb. 11, 2003

Curbing Chronic Hostility May Improve Heart Health | Art, Incorporated | Aging: Scuba Forever. Almost | Black Memories of Jim Crow, and more...

By Stuart Wells

Tuesday, February 11, 2003

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CURBING CHRONIC HOSTILITY MAY IMPROVE HEART HEALTH
Wall Street Journal, Feb. 11 -- Redford B. Williams Jr., a psychiatrist and director of the Behavioral Medicine Research Center at Duke University Medical Center, comments on a growing body of evidence that being an angry person increases your risk for heart disease. (Subscription required to access article.) ... Subscriber access

ART, INCORPORATED
Christian Science Monitor, Feb. 11 -- Duke University is among the many colleges that are making art resources a part of everyday life on campus. The Institute of the Arts at Duke provides a "cultural ticket subsidy." Faculty in any discipline may ask for free tickets to take students to relevant performances. ...Full story

AGING: SCUBA FOREVER. ALMOST
New York Times, Feb. 11 -- Older scuba divers who are wondering whether it is time to hang up their flippers can take heart: as long as they are in good general condition, a new Duke study reports, there is no reason to give up the activity. ...Full story

BLACK MEMORIES OF JIM CROW
(Little Rock) Arkansas Democrat Gazette, Feb. 9 -- "Remembering Jim Crow," first published in 2001 and freshly released in paperback by the New Press, records the oral histories of six dozen blacks interviewed as part of Duke University's Behind the Veil Project. Their words speak volumes of an era of legally enforced racial segregation in the states of the former Confederacy. (Article not available free online; Web site provided.) ...Web site

DUKE PROFESSOR CHALLENGES AREA TO LEARN FROM SOUTH AFRICA'S STRUGGLE
Tallahassee Democrat, Feb. 10 -- Retired Bishop Peter Storey, an anti-apartheid activist from South Africa who is now a professor at Duke, said Sunday that divine intervention lured him away from the "wrong side" of his country's civil rights struggle. ... Full story

HOT TYPE
Chronicle of Higher Education, Feb. 7 -- In March Penguin Books will release "American Indian Stories, Legends, and Other Writings," edited by Duke Provost Cathy N. Davidson and one of her doctoral students, Ada Norris. Ms. Davidson, a literary scholar, discovered Zitkala-Sa's stories in the early 1970s, while doing research for her dissertation. ...Full story

A STAR-CROSSED FLIGHT
U.S. News & World Report, Feb. 17 -- Alex Roland, a Duke University historian, acknowledges that people are intoxicated by space but says, "We don't have anything to do up there." Many researchers agree that the science done by astronauts is marginal compared with returns from automated Mars rovers, space telescopes, and satellites. ...Full story
--Also: (San Jose) Mercury News: Remembering a Space Pioneer
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REDEFINING OUR MISSION IN SPACE
(Durham, N.C.) Herald-Sun, Feb. 9 -- Al Rossiter Jr., former director of the Duke News Service and a veteran UPI reporter covering the space program, writes in an op-ed that the Columbia tragedy may force us as a nation to make key decisions affecting international missions beyond Earth orbit. (Article not online; Web site provided.) ...Web site

MORE STUDENTS GET MBAs ONLINE
USA Today, Feb. 11 -- College degrees over the Internet must fight a reputation for being inferior, and if they ever become mainstream, they will owe a lot to traveling executives who earn MBAs from airplanes and hotel rooms. Duke University's Fuqua School of Business has 709 students in its Global Executive MBA program that combines online learning with traditional classroom sessions that convene every eight weeks. ... Full story

TEEN USE OF ECSTASY, OTHER DRUGS DECLINED
USA Today, Feb. 11 -- A new survey finds that one out of nine children in America had tried Ecstasy. Scott Swartzwelder, a drug and alcohol researcher at the Duke University Medical Center, says that is "frightening." ... Full story

'THE CALL' TO ART
(Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.) Sun-Sentinel, Feb. 10 -- It was only after earning a bachelor's degree in theology from Duke University and a short career as a banker that George Gadson received what he refers to as "the call."
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